Chapter 7 – Episode 7 — Land of the Blind (1)
Episode 7 — Land of the Blind (1)
‘… Hey, I think I’ll pretend.’
The smell of well-baked bread and the savory smell of stew with bird meat filled the restaurant.
The main dish with a bird called partridge – fortunately, it is said that human meat is not used in the emperor’s meal. I don’t like it. ― It’s so soft that I feel like I can chew even the bones.
However, it was Roan alone sitting in the large dining room. Only one lady-in-waiting was serving the meal behind him.
There are more than 10 signs of servants caught in ‘detection’, but all of them are hidden outside the demon king’s field of vision.
And Roan had no choice but to come to terms with how desolate his surroundings were.
‘There was no such thing as a dog… No, can I use such a mild expression?’
The Demon King was a bitch in the world.
For some reason, the attendants who appeared in the morning shivered and disappeared like the wind after completing their business. The attendant who brought the water to wash her face took care of her face and disappeared in a hurry. The servants who helped him undress also trembled and changed Roan’s clothes with the feeling that he could hardly touch his fingertips, and then ran away.
In the process, there were sparsely fragmented memories that came back while seeing new people or environments.
Most of those memories were the color of bloodshed.
“… Dog… Talent…”
“Your majesty?”
“… No.”
Roan, muttering softly at the tyranny of the demon king in another memory, put down his fork and touched his forehead.
He reproaches that he laid a hand on himself while serving. It’s embarrassing because he doesn’t like the way she’s dressed. She interrupted her nap. She’s in a bad mood.
Here, mogaji is not a vulgar expression of dismissal, but literally, on the spot, it means that the neck was blown.
It was rare to see no blood. Rather, if you think about it that way, it is strange that servants remain in the castle and the castle is still running.
“Should I bring you dessert?”
The lady-in-waiting politely asked about the demon king’s intention.
And she was a very large part of Roan’s headache.
She was the maid who had been waiting in front of the emperor’s bedroom from the beginning. Her name is Diobe.
Castle Hero was another attacking character in the legend.
The likability gauge that floated next to her displayed her likability rating at -99 with a muffled gurgling sound.
‘Ugh, uncomfortable…’
I knew that that character was a servant of the Demon King, but I did not know that he was a servant who waited right in front of his nose. She wanted to ask why she was working so close to her, but Roan couldn’t get her to tell her.
Because that woman was the existence that the demon king himself had killed and plundered her husband.
Her sorrowful eyes, wrapped in her demon king’s sharp gaze, lingered on her for a moment, but Diove, expressionless, exchanged her dessert plate for her plate after her meal was over.
‘I was really thankful when I was a warrior…’
A few years ago, when the war had not yet been in full swing. Annoyed by the localized invasion of Merde’s army, the Demon King, as always on a whim, directly raided one of Merde’s border cities.
The border area was always a place where humans and demons fought each other, but at some point, the Merde Kingdom began to send troops in earnest to wipe out the demon villages.
Because it was just an impulse, the demon king stormed the city with a party of three, accompanied by Minoreus, who was not a knight commander at the time, and a treasurer. Because they were few in number, they razed the entire city without being easily spotted by the guards.
The invasion was rather easy because the humans were watching out of the city and in the direction of Evirgio, wary of the demon army. They had no idea that only three people would sneak in and destroy the entire city.
―Oh, it’s a rare off-white color. I like women who fight. I want to hear what she shouts when she gets under me.
The fortress-citadel of the city, which had been engulfed throughout, trembled with the smell of blood. Diobe stood in the hallway of the citadel, holding a sword, to stop the demon king. Outside the window, flames and screams were roaring over the city. Behind her was the hall where the women and children of the castle took refuge.
Leaving behind the screams coming from afar, Diobe sighed.
―Unless you kill me, you won’t take my body, you filthy one! I have a body with a concubine!
– Is this by any chance?
The demon king threw the head he was holding in his hand. The angular hair rolled in front of the woman’s feet. Seeing her face, the woman widened her bloodshot eyes.
Afterwards, he was captured in the castle of the devil, but for some reason, the devil rarely lost interest in Diobe. The other servants of her castle, realizing that she was under the protection of her emperor, treated her as though she were not there.
Diobe offered herself to become the demon king’s maid, and the demon king smiled and allowed it.
That was the content of Diobe’s past reminiscence CG.
When I was playing the game, I thought it was like that and moved on. But seeing her real mood, Roan finally understood how much she gritted her teeth to make such a decision.
‘It didn’t matter if I died.’
It must have been the rare mercy of the demon king, and it must have been the judgment stemming from arrogance that such a woman could not harm me.
However, the Demon King would not have known that a counterattack was starting from a place he did not even think of.
Diove later meets her hero, as he begins to siphon off information about her demon lord. She tells the hero about the structure of the castle, the characteristics of the demon king, the behavior patterns of the demon king, and everything that could be a weakness.
It seems that he thought that it did not matter if he was found out and died. Vengeance seems to have been expected by the hero or the kingdom.
“Ceremony… How was your meal, Your Majesty?”
Dessert was gone before I knew it. It was a meal that I didn’t know whether it went in my mouth or my nose, but it was memorable that the food was delicious anyway. Roan said as if tossing it at the trembling cook, as if he had been dragged out of a slaughterhouse.
“I can’t wait for the next meal.”
Rice is important.
The person who makes delicious rice should make it comfortable. If something can be changed with a compliment like this, then I can do anything.
Roan tried to bring her words out with a lot of affection, but the demon king’s shell also turned them into cold words.
So, it was after the demon king had already left the restaurant that the cook raised his head belatedly with wide eyes. Dio Ve, who regained her senses with a sigh, hurriedly followed Roan.
The demon king looked at Diobe, who followed with a complicated mind. It was a moment when our eyes met. Diove lowered her head hastily as her cold, amethyst-colored eyes stared back at him. As if she were apologizing for her late performance.
However, the demon king knew that the action was just to hide his expression.
‘I shouldn’t let them meet.’
The hero isn’t ready yet. Diobe has never leaked any information. Since Erenia had just departed for the front line, it would still take about half a year for her to take the information out to someone and for it to reach the hands of the hero.
Inside, find a way to appease Diobe or steal information.
However, once the current priority is,
‘It’s a princess.’
Roan gritted his teeth as he thought the laughter would escape without his knowledge. He was worrying for nothing. The demon king’s body was filtering out all the laughs with his poker face. Roan didn’t know.
It’s still a future with a lot of worries, but I still have a chance to see my favorite character in real life, but there is no virtue that I won’t be excited about.
“Diobe.”
“…”
There was no answer. Roan looked back.
As she stood still as if nailed to the floor, her face displayed a look of astonishment.
Diobe thought that the demon king would not know her name. Because she never asked. The demon king always called Diobe by the titles of ‘you’ and ‘human woman’.
“… Diobe.”
“… Ah yes. Yes, Your Majesty. I apologize.”
Dio Ve, on the rare occasion, answered her flusteredly.
‘It’s a rare scene.’
Even in the midst of this, Roan laughed bitterly at the player’s desire to collect.
“Bring Princess 1 as soon as possible.”
“…”
He probably swallowed words like “Suddenly.”
“I understand, Your Majesty.”
Diobe quickly disappeared following Roan’s orders. The place she is heading to is the notorious Demon King’s prison.
It is a long way from meeting the first princess of a warring enemy country in a normal environment. Princesses are second in line to the throne after princes and have high utility in terms of political value.
However, the first princess of Merde Kingdom, the largest human nation on this continent, has unfortunately been imprisoned in the dungeon of the Devil Castle for several months.
In the original game, rescuing the princess (and creating erotic scenes on top of that) is one of the hero’s main tasks. The warrior, who first encountered the capital of the kingdom of demons and the castle of demons by joining the detached team that went out to rescue the imprisoned princess, trembles at the demon king’s atrocities.
‘But this time, jailbreak won’t be possible.’
Because the current demon king, Roan, knows how the hero can break into the castle and steal the princess from prison.
Princess is an early game strategy character. It is in the near future that her detached team moves to rescue her.
Once as a player, I cheered for the hero, but now the hero has become a disturbing existence that threatens his life.
‘I’ll take good care of the princess from now on, so I don’t want her to come and save her.’
In that sense, Roan intended to take a look at how the princess was doing. He had a desire to see the real thing as a fan.
‘Besides, I’m a little worried.’
The original demon king who ruled this castle until yesterday is insane. Not knowing what he had done, Roan felt his head hurt a little.
Even the information that Roan knows is the state when the princess was rescued a few months later. With her body and mind in tatters, she was barely holding on to death.
In other words, with the information Roan knows, it is not possible to know what happened to her until yesterday. Will you be fine Or is it already messed up in a similar state as it was a few months later.
‘The important thing is that you’re okay now…’
As soon as I received the quest, I ate and asked right away…
However, ‘this’ is the demon king. Not knowing what the hell he had done, Roan felt a little dizzy.
‘Ugh…’
Roan rubbed her forehead. It felt like a migraine coming on. I don’t know who Roan might be, but he prayerfully moved his stride.
As I turned the corner, two troll soldiers who had been standing in a daze opened the door to the library, wide-eyed in astonishment.
The library, which was a safe zone where no one thought the demon king would come, was violated today.
“Aigoo, Your Majesty.”
The librarian was shocked at the visit for the first time in ten years of service. The owl-faced librarian, who was sitting at a desk near the entrance to the library in a plain robe and nodding off, hurriedly jumped out and stepped on the hem of the robe and stumbled.
“It is an infinite honor.”
So, the last movement seemed to fall into place. A thud was heard as the large owlbear lay on the floor, but the large body lay trembling in front of Roan.
“What are you looking for?”
Roan admired the magnificent and beautiful library.
The hall, three or four stories high, has a cupola supported by pillars so large that several adults would have to hug it with open arms. Sunlight enters through the glass at the top of the dome and illuminates the thick desks in the reading room below.
Out of the direct sunlight, old books were stacked along the walls of the circular hall. The tall bookcase seemed like it would never be possible to reach the top without a ladder.
“I am looking for a book on the ‘starlight’ magic.”
The librarian’s eyes shone after hearing the demon king’s words. Not metaphorically, literally, the red light in his eyes flickered and then disappeared. It was a magic that reminded him of the knowledge he possessed.
However, the librarian’s beak did not open.
When Roan looked at the librarian with a puzzled look, the librarian only then realized his blasphemy and shuddered.
“Oh, lungs… , Your majesty… Yes, save me…”
“Tell me.”
“Star… , Since starlight magic belongs to ‘that’ magic, related books are sealed in the Forbidden Books Zone. I have a small collection of three books. Guide… Shall I do it for you?”
‘That’ magic?
The demon king’s eyes narrowed.
Suddenly the mood Voldemort… ?
